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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Science, Magic and Religion: the Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto
PART I: OBJECTS OF SCIENCE? BABY AND THE MUMMIES
Chapter 1. Memorialising the Future: the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
Penelope Harvey
Chapter 2. Unwrapping Mummies and Telling their Stories: Egyptian Mummies in Museum Rhetoric
Anna Wieczorkiewicz
PART II: SITE SPECIFICS: THE CASE OF TERVUREN
Chapter 3. Congo-Vision
Barbara Saunders
Chapter 4. The Scourge of Chief Kansabala: the Ritual Life of Two Congolese Masterpieces at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (1884-2001)
Boris Wastiau
PART III: ENCOUNTERS, PERFORMANCES AND UNPREDICTABLES
Chapter 5. Paradise in the Making at Artis Zoo, Amsterdam
Natasha Silva
Chapter 6. The Natural Magic of Monte San Giovanni: Authority, Authenticity and Ritual in Sardinia
Tracey Heatherington
Chapter 7. The Performance of Heritage in a Reconstructed, Post-Apartheid Museum in Namibia
Ian Fairweather
Chapter 8. Haunted Art: Visiting an Exhibit in Weimar
Barbara Wolbert
PART IV: DILEMMAS OF ENCHANTMENT
Chapter 9. Enchantment and its Dilemmas: the Museum as a Ritual Site
Sharon Macdonald
Notes on Contributors
Index
